Lucien Foort - Opinions

[Cosmo Cater]

For those who were there, what were your impressions of Lucien Foort?
What were your impressions of the overall night and venue?
Personally I thought he played some great tunes (such as a Humate mix of Lio - 'Rapture', X Press 2 - 'Smoke Machine') but was let down early on by the lack of a working monitor speaker, with no one from the venue in sight to help him out.
Eventually everything was fixed except for one of the already blown bass bins, which made a really annoying popping sound throughout Lucien's 3 hours of bliss. Despite other hiccups (such as security menacingly telling a couple of trainspotters to get away from the booth, and Lucien promptly telling him where to go!), the night was enjoyable yet met with mixed reactions from others who were there.
Many pointed to the fact Lucien was on in the back room of the club and the main dance floor seemed to enjoy many more people, busting some moves to the sounds of commercial dance hits such as 'Lady Marmalade' - hmmm :\
The venue (R-Bar) is very swish and new, and most people commented it would be a great place to hold more touring international DJs.

[Polecat]

ooohhh, I didnt know Lucien had a gig on in Brisbane!

I'm going to miss him this w'end in Melb, tho' I heard he really rocked it in Melb last yr. Missed him that time too cause I arrived the weekend after his gig.

How bizzare that it was at R-Bar, yet he was in the backroom :/ Not a good tale you've told Cosmo :( Oh well...I wont be able to give my opinion cause i'm swerving Slinky this w'end. I will try to catch Lucien *next* time!

[JayP]

i would have loved to have cught him - its a bit hard to get me out on a week night though !!

so, who were the support DJ;s for him ?

there was no mention of this in the street press

also, who played in the main room ?

[JayP]

i would have loved to have caught him - its a bit hard to get me out on a week night though !!

so, who were the support DJ's for him ?

there was no mention of this in the street press

also, who played in the main room ?

[fireSprite]

Jay,

there were no "support" DJs as such, at least none from the brisbane progressive mafia. Some of us were in the audience though, mostly grimacing & cringing at the track selection from the residents (J-Lo & the aformentioned "Lady Marmalade") & feeling slightly embarressed for both Lucien & Brisbane.

The R-Bar had all the atmosphere of the very worst nights at Viva. Has potential but they need to get a clue. And a better sound system.

Lucien, on the other hand, was damn tight & I'd have to agree with Fergus' estimate that he was better the Nick Warren. Further testament to GateCrasher's move into more credible progressive territory. I was wishing he'd played at the Monastery on Wednesday night & the R-Bar had done Jules on Thursday night instead.....

[Cosmo Cater]

On the matter of support DJs, there was apaprently some guy called Graham, but as Mr. Firesprite-Lieb said, there really weren't any recognised Brisbane club spinners - it appeared to be more tailored towards a mainstream sound anyway.
As to Jay P's comment that he didn't see anything about it in street press, there were 3-4 full page full colour ads advertising it in Scene Magazine running through consecutive weeks, as well as regular listings for about amonth in Club Mix, at least four photos of Lucien over the past couple of months and a listing in the page three Party Calendar. The only thing Scene Magazine couldn't get from Lucien was an interview.
Polecat - Lucien is hoping to return to Australia quite soon:)

[Cosmo Cater]

On the matter of support DJs, there was apaprently some guy called Graham, but as Mr. Firesprite-Lieb said, there really weren't any recognised Brisbane club spinners - it appeared to be more tailored towards a mainstream sound anyway.
As to Jay P's comment that he didn't see anything about it in street press, there were 3-4 full page full colour ads advertising it in Scene Magazine running through consecutive weeks, as well as regular listings for about amonth in Club Mix, at least four photos of Lucien over the past couple of months and a listing in the page three Party Calendar. The only thing Scene Magazine couldn't get from Lucien was an interview.
Polecat - Lucien is hoping to return to Australia quite soon:)

[JayP]

Yeah I saw all of the ads for the night - what I was reffering to is they did not list any of the other DJ's playing in any of their advertising.

If R-Bar really wants to make a go of it they really need to involve some DJ's like all of us !!!

[Polecat]

Cosmo: thanks for the tip on Lucien's return.

Firesprite: progressive Mafia ..hahahaha :)

[Cosmo Cater]

JayP: I agree, you boys should have been top of the list, but I think the venue had some genre difficulties.
For instance, if one examines the poster for the event closely, below 'Lucien Foort (Netherlands) ' there are three icons, all representing the text below them.
The names of the three icons? Electro, Drum 'n' Bass and Disco, none of which poor Lucien even approached playing.
Mainstream appropriation of dance music makes me giggle, or bash my head against the wall, depending on how you view it.

[Chris Tisdell]

Oh dear, poor Lucien.... Oh well, I guess he can look on the bright side when he checks his bank balance!

C

[JayP]

:-) yeah

what a contract Australia will be for him - the massive Slinky in Syd and Melbourne and the wonderful experience of Brisbane........

[Cosmo Cater]

Position
Artist
Title
Mix
Label



1
North Atlantic
Lights Out
Lemon 8 Lights On Mix
EQ [Grey]

2
Moseh Naim
Neem (Shooting Star)
Bladey/Koma & Bones Mixes
Mob

3
Iio
Rapture
Deep Dish Mix
Data

4
Satoshi Tomiie
Virus
-
SAW

5
New Order
Crystal
Music For Pleasure Remix
CD-R

6
Tarantella
Saturn
Quivver Mix
White

7
Wally Lopez & Dr. Kucho
Patricia Never Leaves The House/House Park
-
Bugged Out!

8
R-Kidz vs Noize
I Can't Stand It/C 2 It
-
Mechanoise

9
G.E
The Sunrising EP
Sunrising (E Mix)
Plastic City

10
Deetron
CutBack EP
Emphasis
Phont Music

11
Sumantri
Progressive Soul EP
Natural Progression
Sumantri

12
Halosol
Mexico Part 1
G-Nciana
Antedrum

13
Satoshi Tomiie
Atari
-
Direction/Sony

14
Dynamic Shadows
Lowriders (Listen To The Band)
Hakan Lidbo Schifrinesque Soundtrack Mix
Mob

15
La Colina
Mi Samba
Samba De La Noche
Junior

16
Private Taste
First
Ashtrax Rerub
Automatic

17
Jaya
Excursion
Funk Function Remix
Inversus

18
Nexus
Technoid
-
Plink Plonk

19
2 Sinners
Of This Feeling
-
TCR

20
Looped For Pleasure
Deep Down
Time For Love
Off World Sounds

[Orinoko]

Is this the order ya gonna play em on the weekend?

hehehehehehehehehehehehehe

Dave

[JayP]

Nah - i bet he does a 20 deck mash up !

[Cosmo Cater]

Woah, don't know how my chart ended up here, but yes, Jay P is right, you can expect a 20 deck trainwreck mix of all of the above records at Mantra on Saturday night. However I won't be able to play any of the CDs as a certain club seems to be missing certain decent DJ CD players;)
Methinks I'll leave the 20 deck DJ stunts for the adventurous or the publicity-hungry.

[TheViking]

after the rosie's makeover to the r-bar, they have made some bad mistakes. i went there once on a sunday night and the place looks much better now (yes, unfortanly i have been there before..). they still attract the same crowd, no wonder with the music they play there. i was really looking forward to a really cool place in the city (since i live pretty close - spring hill), but so far nothing has changed but the interior - which is far from enough. it is really strange to see a great dj like lucien foort coming to a venue like that, while a cool club like the family is going to host darude. if both clubs would focus on the image they are trying to create, they would have exchanged those gigs. but, i understand, there is this little thing called money.